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Timmer
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 Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:50 pm Post subject: Crazy man output [solved] |
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I tried to look at a man page the other day, and this is what I got:
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ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
cp - copy files and directories
ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
ESC[1mcp ESC[22m[ESC[4mOPTIONESC[24m]... [ESC[4m-TESC[24m] ESC[4mSOURCEESC[24m ESC[4mDEST
ESC[0m
ESC[1mcp ESC[22m[ESC[4mOPTIONESC[24m]... ESC[4mSOURCEESC[24m... ESC[4mDIRECTORYESC[0m
ESC[1mcp ESC[22m[ESC[4mOPTIONESC[24m]... ESC[4m-tESC[24m ESC[4mDIRECTORYESC[24m ESC[4mSOURCEESC[24m...
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When I googled, I only got stuff about a bug with non-English UTF encoding. But I'm using English, so that's not my problem. So I'm stumped. Does anyone know how I can make my man pages readable again?
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marduk
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| Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Those are escape sequences. Your pager should be able to know what do do with them. What are you using as your pager? |
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Timmer
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| Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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| I have no idea. How do I find out? |
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ndse2112
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| Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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Timmer
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| Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| Oh. Hmm. It appears to be unset. That would probably be the problem. But unfortunately, I'm still in the dark. Google has told me that 'less -is' is the default, but it seems like I want to over ride that. It do that in /etc/man.conf apparently, but it doesn't tell me what other possible options would be. Suggestions? |
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haarp
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| Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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Just put
into ~/.bashrc and you're done. But I'd recommend emerging 'most' instead of less. Does colorful manpages, much easier to read  |
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eccerr0r
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| Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:28 am Post subject: |
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If you're using less, you need to set your environment variable for less(1) options ("LESS") to include -R if it's not already set (this is due to a change that Gentoo devs did to switch from old/traditional man/nroff overstrike method to ANSI, to "get with the times" (and make it easier to search)) :
(for bourne shells:)
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This is becoming a FAQ... but... how would someone search for this problem? heh...
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Timmer
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| Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 3:53 am Post subject: |
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ah. I figured we couldn't have gotten to the root of the problem yet. But I bet that's it.
I set PAGER to less, but that didn't do the trick. Then I set it to more, and that made things readable again. When I came back here to report that, I read the above post, and tried less -R. That works too.
Still going to try most, because it intrigues me. (Also, OT, but wondering what the next one after most will be called... mostest?) |
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Mike Hunt
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| Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:31 am Post subject: |
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Strange that you don't have these 2 files | Code: | # cat /etc/env.d/99pager
# Configuration file for eselect
# This file has been automatically generated.
PAGER="/usr/bin/less" |
| Code: | # cat /etc/env.d/70less
LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s"
LESS="-R -M --shift 5" |
You can always try eselect pager list/set to set your pager. |
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Timmer
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| Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I didn't have the first one, but I do have the second. Am I correct in guessing that it's supposed to be defining default options for less? Because it doesn't seem to be doing that. |
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